By Stacey Shackford
Special to Poultry Times
ITHACA, N.Y. — With salmonella-tainted ground turkey sickening more than 100 people and listeria-contaminated cantaloupes killing 15 this year, the ability to detect outbreaks of foodborne illness and determine their sources has become a top public health priority.
A new approach, reported online Oct. 14 in the journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology by a collaborative team led by Cornell scientists, will enable government agencies and food companies to pinpoint the exact nature and origin of foodborne bacteria with unprecedented accuracy, says food science professor Martin Wiedmann.
The standard method of tracing. . .
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